Well, since neither my host nor sourceforge supports MySQLi, I bit the bullet and ported Tuatara back down to the regular MySQL extension under PHP. I figured if I'm having trouble with finding support for it, others down the line will too, so I want to keep the audience open.

Now that it's just using the regular extensions, if anybody else would be interested in testing, please let me know. Thanks to CMellor I've already found a few issues that have been fixed, and would appreciate further outside influence in this matter. Also as a result of this I will be putting it online soon and will be busting my butt to get the installation app completed, so if you would like to test but would rather wait until it has a built in installation, just note that in your reply. Thank you,
-m